Chapter 546 You Can’t Afford It!

80_80813 Yang Huan said that Mancini’s tactics were too mechanical and lacked adaptability, which was indeed true.

After Southampton scored the first goal, the Saints continued to launch a fierce attack on Manchester City in accordance with Bielsa's instructions and arrangements.

The focus is still on the two side roads.

Manchester City's tactics and player positioning seem very flexible, but in fact it is easy to expose the flanks.

Therefore, it was easy for Gareth Bale and Neymar to get one-on-one opportunities on the wing as Saints took advantage.

For the Saints' devil wings, one-on-one often means defeating the opponent.

Just less than five minutes after the last goal, Modric made a diagonal pass behind Maicon in the middle. Neymar received the ball and faced Zabaleta in a one-on-one match. The Brazilian star made a series of feints, dribbled past Zabaleta, and then made a low pass to the middle.

Vidal came from behind and shot with his right foot in the middle of the penalty area, breaking Manchester City's goal again, 2-0!

This goal once again made Mubarak slap his forehead, feeling extremely heartbroken.

But Southampton didn't seem to intend to stop and continued to bombard.

Again on the left, Neymar was one-on-one, he broke through Zabaleta and made a high cross.

Ibrahimovic headed the ball, Joe Hart flew to save it, the ball fell into the penalty area, Gareth Bale came at lightning speed, took advantage of the opportunity, and pushed the ball into the empty goal, making it 3-0!

The game had only been going on for twenty-five minutes and Southampton had already scored three goals!

This immediately made all the Saints fans excited!

What is even more shocking is that in the first 25 minutes, or even until the 30th minute, Manchester City completed its first shot of the game, and it was a completely harmless shot.

"Oh my god, the gap can't be that big, right?"

Mubarak looked like he was about to cry.

The match between the second and third place in the league standings ended in a one-sided 3-0 victory within 30 minutes.

Isn't this the rhythm of a big score?

But just when everyone was expecting Southampton to continue their bombardment, Mancini made adjustments.

From the original three defenders, the formation changed back to four defenders.

Although it was still unstable and was still suppressed by Southampton, at least the defensive weaknesses were not exposed so obviously.

But Mancini seemed to think that it was not enough. He couldn't wait until the half-time break and directly replaced the poor Zabaleta with Nasri.

The Argentine full-back was almost pierced by Neymar throughout the first half!

The newly-come Nasri focused on strengthening the midfield's ability to get the ball, with Stroman and Yaya Toure forming a double defensive midfielder.

This allowed Manchester City to safely survive the final minutes of the first half.

In the second half, the situation improved after Manchester City made adjustments in the midfield.

But Southampton held the three goals firmly in hand and began to play more patiently, with the three lines remaining more compact, as if they were letting Manchester City attack while they waited for an opportunity to launch a counterattack.

This made Mancini very depressed because they didn't have the courage to attack at all!

The game can only continue to kill time like this.

Although Manic tried to launch a counterattack by making substitutions, Southampton's defense was not bad, especially Matic in the defensive midfielder position, which made everyone feel at ease.

Seeing Manchester City and Southampton competing fiercely on the field but still unable to break the deadlock, with the score still at 3-0, Mubarak in the chairman's stand shook his head and sighed.

"If we lose this game, I'm afraid this season is over for us!"

Although Manchester City is far behind Manchester United in points, it has been occupying the second place in the Premier League standings since the beginning of the season.

But now, this 0-3 away loss to Southampton not only allowed the Saints to complete a comeback in the standings, but also completely destroyed Manchester City's morale.

In just 25 minutes, they conceded three goals. I don’t know whether I should say that Manchester City’s defense was too bad or Southampton’s attack was too strong.

Yang Huan sat next to Mubarak. After hearing his sigh, he shook his head and smiled, "Do you know why?"

Mubarak looked at Yang Huan, as if asking for his advice.

"You have too many central players. David Silva, Nasri, Aguero, Milner and others all prefer the central position. Your tactical width mainly relies on the full-backs, such as Kolarov, Maicon, Clichy and Zabaleta."

To a certain extent, Mancini let Kolarov and Maicon move forward in this game with the intention of ensuring flank attack and creating tactical width.

"But you have to understand that a full-back is always a full-back. Maicon is old and getting worse day by day. He can no longer control the entire wing by himself like in his peak period. The same is true for Kolarov."

Yang Huan's words were very frank and to the point.

"There is a serious shortage of attacking players on the wing, but the middle is bloated. David Silva and Nasri have serious overlaps. Add to that Aguero and Yaya Toure who loves to attack from behind. The entire middle of your Manchester City team is almost overcrowded. The allocation of resources is seriously unreasonable!"

"As for the defensive midfielder, Yaya Toure doesn't want to be a defensive midfielder at all. Strootman is good at both offense and defense, but he has never been a top defensive midfielder. This makes Manchester City's midfielder's protection of the defense very weak!"

Thinking of this, Yang Huan really wanted to say, all you guys are missing is a Matic.

But on second thought, damn, Matic is a player that Bielsa values ​​very much. With him, Southampton has a stable plan B, and midfield rotation will be much easier.

If by chance I say too much and make Mubarak interested, money is no problem, and Southampton can spend 20 or 30 million pounds, and they won't suffer any loss. But where can they find a strong defensive midfielder like Matic who is stable and can be plug-and-play these days?

Could it be that we need to pull Javi Martinez back to midfield?

But looking at the field, the Spaniard is commanding the defense with a commanding style. How can we bear to let him go back to midfield?

So, after thinking about it, Yang Huan remained silent.

Mubarak also remained silent.

Yang Huan's words were indeed very frank, and could be said to be heartfelt. He was just short of pointing his finger at them and cursing, saying, "You guys are a bunch of basketball idiots. You only know how to pile up stars, but don't know how to properly build a team."

With David Silva already in the team, bringing in Nasri, isn't that just piling up stars?

"Master Huan, what you mean is that we need a strong wing breakthrough player?"

Yang Huan looked at this guy with a look in his eyes that seemed a little strange, but he still nodded and said, "That's the truth."

But Mubarak started talking to himself.

"Nasri and David Silva are both ball-control players. So what we need most at Manchester City is a strong winger like Gareth Bale, especially after seeing his performance in this game..."

"Ah?" Yang Huan was stunned when he heard this.

Damn it, you are trying to poach me, right?

"Master Huan, please sell Gareth Bale to us!"

Yang Huan immediately shook his head and said with a smile: "Brother, let's not talk about this anymore!"

"Why?" Mubarak was depressed.

Gareth Bale is doing great. He has adapted to the Premier League, proved his strength, and is shining again this season. He is absolutely awesome!

Originally, Mubarak thought Neymar was good, but Neymar was also the type who preferred to control the ball, so he finally felt that Gareth Bale was good and a British player, so he was worth introducing!

Little did he know that Master Huan's words would almost make him fall down.

“You can’t afford it!”

Buy...can’t afford it?

Mubarak felt as if he had been insulted!

Manchester City, a wealthy team, can't afford Gareth Bale?

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. If you want to introduce players, our Southampton scouting system can help you provide some advice, but if you want to introduce Gareth Bale, forget it, we won't sell him!"

After Yang Huan said this, Mubarak felt better.

Come to think of it, Gareth Bale has only been in Southampton for one season and is a youth player at Southampton. How could Yang Huan sell him easily?

Besides, with Gareth Bale's current reputation and influence, even if he wants to transfer, Southampton will probably not easily let him transfer to a Premier League rival. Wouldn't this weaken themselves and strengthen their opponents?

How could Young Master Huan do such a thing that would harm himself and benefit others?

"Master Huan, this is what you said. If you decide to sell it, remember to notify us!"

"Okay, okay, I got it!"

Yang Huan just started laughing and started practicing Tai Chi.

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This focus battle that attracted worldwide attention ended with Southampton defeating Manchester City 3-0 at home.

Southampton, playing at home, won three points with the victory in this game, accumulating 53 league points, reversing Manchester City and ranking second in the Premier League standings.

Manchester United has 20 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses, earning 63 points and ranking first in the Premier League.

With a huge lead and 12 league rounds left, it is unlikely that any team will be able to shake Manchester United's championship position.

This also led to the entire British media starting to extensively publicize Manchester United's leading advantage after this round of games.

It is an established fact that the Red Devils will win the championship. The only difference is in which round it will be confirmed.

Are you kidding me? If they lead by ten points but still lose the championship, is that still Ferguson? Or Manchester United?

On the contrary, in the competition for the top four in the league, after Manchester City lost this round away from home, the points gap with Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur was narrowed. There is only one point difference between the three teams, and they may be defeated at any time.

As for Arsenal, they are still some distance away from Tottenham Hotspur, which is fifth in the league. It may not be so easy to compete for the top four in the league.

It is worth mentioning that after Newcastle, led by the second chairman Ashley, fired Alan Pardew, not only did the change of coach fail to achieve the effect of changing the knife, but it slipped step by step and unknowingly fell to the 16th place in the league.

Only one step away from the relegation zone!

This also caused great sadness in the British media.

In the first few rounds of the Premier League, Newcastle was so glorious, but now it has fallen into relegation, which is really sad.

But Yang Huan has never had the habit of showing mercy to his opponents, because he believes that there must be something hateful about pitiful people.

Newcastle's drastic decline is probably due to their internal situation.

Besides, after watching the 26th round of the Premier League, Yang Huan and Mubarak immediately set off from Southampton to London, and then took a flight from Heathrow Airport to Miami, USA.

At the same time, core senior executives from several European top teams also gathered in Miami, attracting the attention of the media in the United States and around the world.

Because the annual International Champions Cup group draw ceremony will be held here.

In addition, many media outlets have speculated that with so many football bigwigs gathered together, some big news might come out.

For example, agreeing on a player transfer or something.